pauken
German, verb
pauken is spelled P-A-U-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 32,479th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pauken is a German verb meaning “to swot, cram (study with effort)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Pauken is a different word: “plural of Pauke”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Pauke schlagen”.
What does pauken mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto swot, cram (study with effort)
- 2
datedto practice academic fencing
- 3
datedto brawl
verb
- 1
to beat a drum
- 2
to drum in; to emphasize
noun
- 1
plural of Pauke
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Pauke schlagen 2. intensiv und mechanisch lernen 3. schlagen, hieben 4. fechten
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pauken
- paukt present singular third-person
- paukte past
- gepaukt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- paukend participle present
- pauke first-person indicative present
- paukst indicative present second-person
- paukest second-person singular subjunctive
- pauket plural second-person subjunctive
- paukten first-person indicative plural
- pauktest indicative preterite second-person
- pauktet indicative plural preterite
- pauk imperative second-person singular
- habe gepaukt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gepaukt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- pauk! imperative singular
- pauke! imperative singular
- paukt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pauken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pauken in German?
pauken appears 1.3 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).